Best Practices Team,
FYI - I LOVE all the work that the team has been doing on the best
practices resources. There is so much experience and expertise in the
community that needs to be documented, shared and celebrated!
At two recent events in which I participated, NIH Wikipedia Academy and
GLAM-Wiki, there was strong interest from attending institutions to have
us help them in developing sound policies to encourage their employees
to contribute to Wikimedia projects and find appropriate ways to release
content into the public domain.
I'm not sure its an area that we'll have the capacity to support (and
haven't committed to anything), though I could see there being plenty of
policy experts amongst the diverse Wikimedian pool! We might be able to
develop some templates in coordination with Creative Commons. Or maybe
there are already good resources for institutions moving in that
direction. I've added some links to social media computing policies that
we directed the NIH leads to.
I posted it on m:Public outreach/Resources
I wasn't sure where it should go, so feel free to move it if there is a
better place. Or ignore it if it just doesn't fit our capacity at this time.
Thanks everyone!
Jennifer Riggs